A Question of Taste deals with kitsch, a concept whose meaning has shifted since the 19th century, and the intimate relationship this concept has established with today's visual culture as well as its critical role in shaping taste. The film programtitled Digital Feelings, curates 5 examples of film and video art representations of the concept of taste as an indicator for social class, the values attributed to the Eastern and Western understanding of aesthetic, the rise of mass culture against high art, and the visual language shaped during the transition from object culture to digital culture.
Running between May 9 – 29, the program includes Suzie Silver's adaptation film Freebird, which draws upon an amazing array of found footage and special effects to bend genders and genres with spectacular visual delight; Fresh Kill, which makes sense of the act of disposing of goods and people by exploring connections among people on the edges of corporate capitalism and off-center in a white, bourgeois, heterosexual world; Julia Meltzer and Amanda Ramos’ short film (chantlandia), which uses the public bathroom stall as format and metaphor for Internet relay chat lines (IRCs); Valentine for Perfect Strangers, which was anonymously posted online in 2006 and last but not least, Wonders Wander, a location based mobi-web-serial with four fictional episodes set in Madrid.
The program will be streamed at film.peramuzesi.org.tr between May 9 – 29, and only be accessible to online audiences in Turkey. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.
He was born on April 18, 1935 in the province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. His family migrated to the capital, San José, where in 1952 he earned a bachelor’s degree from the Lyceum of Costa Rica.
Isabel Muñoz is a Spanish photographer renowned for her captivating monochromatic portraits of individuals and cultures from around the world. Her works have been widely exhibited in numerous galleries and museums globally.
The Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Orientalist Painting Collection includes two children’s portraits that are often featured in exhibitions on the second floor of the Pera Museum. These portraits both date back to the early 20th century, and were made four years apart. One depicts Prince Abdürrahim Efendi, son of Sultan Abdulhamid II, while the figure portrayed on the other is Nazlı, the daughter of Osman Hamdi Bey.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
